On 31/08/08 15:25, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > On Sunday 31 August 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> BTW, I do appreciate Simon's point about df showing a different number. >> How about we print: >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 1099511627776 512-byte hardware sectors (563TB / 512TiB) >> >> (or perhaps a more realistic number ...) >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 976562500000 512-byte hardware sectors (500TB / 455TiB) >> >> It's perhaps a more gentle way of informing our users that they may not >> have quite as much capacity as they thought they had. > > Great idea! As a user/admin I would find this the best one of all. > > 1. All variants given. > 2. Correct scientific units used. I oppose all the "iB" forms. Has anyone tried pronouncing these? Pee-bee-bytes? Alternatively we could just remove the part in brackets from the message... -- Simon Arlott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
